11/03/2026
Hull painted by Cary Mahr @ CIC 😁
Only three of these twenty four foot Lymans are known to exist, and this one is two years into a two hundred seventy five thousand dollar restoration.
Gull is a nineteen thirty nine Lyman Custom Runabout with the All Weather hardtop — solid mahogany cabin sides, lapstrake topsides, carvel planked bottom. Eight thousand pounds, and by Classic Marine's count, four times as many parts as a production boat of the same size. Dwight Davis puts it plainly: she fights us every step of the way.
The history is the best part. Lyman's move from Cleveland to Sandusky in nineteen twenty eight nearly sank the company. What kept it alive was building trap net boats for Lay Brothers Fisheries — heavy commercial work, mid Depression. This hull is that same yard making the same kind of heavy boat a generation later, now bound for the Maritime Museum of Sandusky and public rides on Sandusky Bay.
Would you want to be aboard on her first passenger run?
